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According to the ACLJ, Pastor Hassan received a 12-year prison sentence. He has 15 days to appeal his conviction.

Please continue to keep him in your prayers, and if you haven't already, and you want to sign the petition for his release, you can do so here.

-Laughter

Earlier today, Pastor Saaed Abendini was released from Iran after over three years in prison. He, along with three other Americans, are now in a safe zone waiting to be flown to Europe.

This is such a wonderful answer to prayer!!!!!!!!! Praise God!!!!!

Please do continue to keep Pastor Saeed and his family in prayer, however, because it will be a long road to recovery.

Pastor Saeed is still suffering in the worst prison in Iran, and the Iranian guards recently targeted him with another raid on his prison cell. The nuclear deal with Iran offered no aid to Saeed and the other Americans being held prisoner there.

The ACLJ has begun a new letter campaign, in which the letters will be presented to the U.N. Secretary General, urging him to pressure Iran for Pastor Saeed's freedom. But, they only have four days to collect the letters.

They have a pre-done letter format that you can sign (it only takes a few seconds) or if you want to, you can write your own letter as well.

Just click here.

Praise the Lord, Sudanese Pastors, Michael and Peter, who were facing a possible death sentence, have now been freed! :) God is so good!

The two Sudanese pastors I mentioned a few weeks ago have been officially charged with crimes punishable by death, though no evidence of their "crimes" has been presented at their trial. They are being held in terrible conditions, and being denied access to their attorney.

Their trial will resume in days, and the ACLJ is starting a massive letter-writing campaign to the new Sudanese Minister of Justice.

They need all the signatures they can get. If you'd like to sign the letter, you can do so here.

It takes only a minute. Please also keep them and the ACLJ in prayer.

-Laughter

The Voice of the Martyrs is currently working to help the Christians who have been forced to flee ISIS in Iraq. To do this, VOM has created a special T-shirt using the Arabic letter “n” that the homes of Christians are being marked with in Northern Iraq (the “n” stands for Nazarene). The t-shirts are $20, and $10 dollars goes directly to help Iraqi Christians.

Or, if you prefer, you can simply leave a donation for them, without purchasing the t-shirt.

If you’re interested, you can find the page here.

I try not to flood the comm with things like this, because there are always so many worthy causes and so many things to pray about, but this one seemed like another good one to share.

Some consider North Korea “The most Christian-Hostile Nation in Human History” (Rev. Eric Foley, These are the Generations). Personal accounts by North Korean Christians support this, and their stories are harrowing. The Voice of the Martyrs is currently running a campaign, writing letters of confession to North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong Un.

If you’re interested, you can sign a letter electronically here.

It’s easy to do, and doesn’t take long.

Hi, everyone.

You might remember an earlier post I had up in support of Pastor Saeed Abedini, who is currently in prison in Iran for his faith in Christ. It has now been almost a year since he was first sentenced, and he is still suffering.

However, Iran now has a new president, one who claims to be more moderate. The ACLJ (The American Center for Law and Justice, a non-profit, Christian legal organization) is beginning a campaign to send President Hassan Rouhani 1,000 letters a week, pleading for Pastor Saeed's release.

If you'd like to help, you can write a letter here.

It's incredibly easy - they have a form letter you can use, and it only takes a few minutes at most. More info about Paster Saeed and the ACLJ can be found on the website as well. Please keep him and his family, and this effort, in your prayers.

Also, you've probably heard about the devastating floods in Colorado. I live in Colorado myself, close to the flooded counties, though my hometown has been mercifully spared the worst so far. Please pray for the state and all the families suffering right now. And, if you can, please donate to the relief efforts through a reputable charity. It's going to be a very long recovery.

Hi, everyone. I'm sure that like me you've been watching the coverage of the devastation in Japan. My thoughts and prayers go out to everyone who's been touched by the disaster there. You may have already heard about this, but there's a fandom auction for charity at the LJ comm help_japan. If you'd like to bid or offer up a fic, please check it out.

There's already a very large number of posts at the comm, so to make things a bit easier to search through, I'd be happy to make a list of christianfanfic authors who are involved, with links to their offers. If you're already involved, or decide to sign up, please post a comment on this entry with a link to your post in the auction. The auction runs from now to the 28th of March.

And, if you're interested, I just put up my own offer of a one-shot: here. More details about the offer are included with the post.

-Laughter